The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Hard To Remember The Last Time I Was Excited By A Privacy Policy

by Smitty The colonoscopy went well enough today, which you may not care about too much. After the week of intestinal issues around Thanksgiving time, it seemed prudent. Especially given that you never know where the ObamaCare wrecking ball will swing next. Typically, reading a software license or a privacy policy is right up there […]

Ed Gillespie? A Button Marked ‘Crap’ Would Be An Improvement Over Warner

by Smitty (h/t Bearing Drift) A polished ad from the former RNC chief: While I still think Howie Lind and Shak Hill are great guys (the former, a retired squid has my nod for large, haze gray reasons) we’re talking about going after an entrenched, useless tool of an incumbent. Maybe if Governor. . .um. […]

Obama’s Millionaire ‘Green’ Ambassador to Finland Mocks Critics in Holiday Card

Bruce Oreck is a lawyer who got rich from his family’s famous vacuum cleaner business. He is an environmentalist who gave about a quarter-million to Democrats in the past two decades and who “bundled” about a half-million in contributions to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Oreck was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Finland: In 2003, Ambassador […]

Because It’s Cute, That’s Why

Do I need an excuse to post something this cute? Isn't the plural of platypus "platypi"? pic.twitter.com/GEXJeCdlrk @sav01 @ItsThatBriGuy @Fascinatingpics — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 26, 2013 Meanwhile, my earlier hunch that the report of a gunman at Yale was a hoax turns out to be correct: Yale’s New Haven, Conn., campus was put […]

Who Else Has An #ObamaCare I-Told-You-So Card To Play?

by Smitty Actually, I’ve got two. These date to the Kill the Bill protest of 20 March, 2010, when these babies were on the U.S. Capitol steps: Oh say, can you see, By the Gore-approved light How sadly Dems failed At democracy’s last deeming? Whose dark bribes, kickbacks and carves, Amidst the Constitutional fight, O’er […]

Cirque du Soleil: Why Do You Think They Call It ‘The Wheel of Death,’ Anyway?

OK, for purposes of truth in advertising, maybe they should call it “The Wheel of Hospitalized in Stable Condition“: LAS VEGAS — A Cirque du Soleil performer remains hospitalized after a fall during a show Friday night at the Aria resort on the Las Vegas Strip. The performance company issued a statement Saturday saying the […]

Media Can’t Spin ObamaCare ‘Debacle’

You know it’s a complete botch when even the Democrat-Media Complex — NBC, ABC, CBS — can’t ignore the failure: (Hat-tip: Donald Douglas at American Power.)  

Great SF Authors That Go Well Together

— by Wombat-socho Joe The Fat Man recommended Point Apocalypse in the comments last week, and Richard McEnroe likewise put in a good word for The Futurians by Damon Knight, The Way the Future Was by Fred Pohl, and Dream Makers by Charles Platt. There’s also Dream Makers, Vol. 2 if you can’t get enough […]

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